Doug Kauffman

Doug Kauffman was a Party for Socialism and Liberation activist. On 13 January 2017, he gave a speech to the Los Angeles Socialist Forum about the Syrian Civil War, Russia, and Donald Trump, and how the USA was cut out of a major ceasefire deal in Syria negotiated in Astana, Kazakhstan, and how there was no official invitation for US intervention. Kauffman called Trump a demagogue and predicted that Trump would pull back from going against Russia if the USA was invited to the forum, and he called the Syrian Arab Army and Liwa al-Quds' capture of East Aleppo a "liberation", while decrying the accusations of civilian massacres as propaganda and lies.